By Daniel Knowles
One night in April someone threw a pipe bomb into the headquarters of American Satanism in Salem, Massachusetts. It failed to explode fully and was not found for another 12 hours. According to the police, the plastic pipe was studded with nails and full of gunpowder. Had the bomb been better constructed, it could have caused a lot of damage. A message found in a flowerpot nearby said that “Elohim” (a Hebrew word for God) had sent the perpetrator “to smite Satan”.
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